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SECTION II.
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
Education, both mental and physical is of paramount importance to the wellbeing
of a nation, and to each and every citizen. This is particularly true of education
in health matters, and the Council place the greatest importance on this work.
Manufacturers and tradesmen, in order to sell their wares, have found it necessary
to carry on large scale and continuous advertisement; in the same way it is necessary
to advertise the health services provided by local authorities—not to sell them—
but to induce the people to make full use of them. This has been recognised by the
Government in the National Campaign, referred to below, to encourage a wider use
of the Health Services. The success of the services provided depends to a great
extent on the co-operation of the public, and increased co-operation means greater
progress towards a healthy race. Fit and happy citizens make a fit and happy nation
The activities of the Council in this direction during 1937 may be classified
as follows:—
(a) Health Week.—The following is a copy of the report of the Health Committee
to the Council:—
"Health Week.—We report that, in accordance with the Council's resolution,
a Health Exhibition, which was organised by the Central Council for Health
Education, was held at the Town Hall, Woolwich, during the week 27th September
to 2nd October, 1937.
We were able to secure the co-operation of those Committees of the
Council which deal directly or indirectly with matters affecting health, and of
various national and local organisations. The exhibits were limited to those
which bear directly on the work.
The Health Department's stands and tableaux dealt with general sanitation
and food supervision, diphtheria immunisation, infestation by the bed-bug
and other insects, safer motherhood, the care of the toddler, nutrition,
tuberculosis and the National Health Campaign. In connection with these
a pleasing innovation was provided by two tableaux demonstrating a maternity
ward in a London County Council Hospital, and the work of the new domiciliary
midwifery scheme, which commences next January.
Other aspects of health work were given prominence by the exhibits of
the National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare, the National Association
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, the Dental Board of the United Kingdom,
the British Social Hygiene Council, the Woolwich Tuberculosis Care Committee,